Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make it practicable. And, apropos a class dance, it is the question of practicability which should confront the Juniors as well as the Sophomores at this time. This might sound like heresy to those who base their arguments upon the social allurements of the proposed dance, but the desired opportunity of making contacts has only the shadowiest chance of fulfillment...
Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...made their observation? while flying their Lockhead-Vega plane in a 1,200-mile sally from their base on Deception Island, situated between Antarctica and Cape Horn...
...miles to the Ross sea where Commander Byrd, last week, was ice-locked on his City of New York. He rewired the Times an invitation to Captain Wilkins: "Hearty congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you will find a warm welcome if you fly to our base." This message the Times forwarded by land telegraph to the Examiner in San Francisco, 3,000 miles across this continent; the Examiner pushed it by wireless the 7,500 miles to Captain Wilkins. So it went a 20,500-mile triangle although the two explorers were only 2,000 miles...